A very bored-looking Kathy Bates stars as Harriet "Harry" Korn, a jaded patent lawyer who's sacked from the corporate world and starts a makeshift storefront law firm in the remnants of what appears to be a foreclosed-upon shoe store.

Fifteen minutes later, after all the various gears, drives, metal plates, sexbot heads—Tychus paused and had to consider a moment before throwing those in—and other detritus had been cataloged, numbered, sorted, and placed in various areas of the platform, the bored-looking scrap yard employee handed them a data log.

When she's pursuing her formidable gift for the charmingly inconsequential – to the point where it sometimes feels as if she's got a slightly bored-looking guy with a bass drum and hi-hat permanently stationed behind her, ready to go ba-boom-tish! every few sentences – she's also making an argument.